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1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, 502284 Sangareddy, Telangana, India.
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Herein, we report a highly efficient and mild deoxyfluorination strategy for the synthesis of glycosyl fluorides directly from glycosyl hemiacetals using diphenylchlorophosphate in combination with the fluorinating reagent KHF2. This protocol employs bench-stable and readily available substrates, exhibits excellent functional group tolerance, and affords both armed and disarmed glycosyl fluorides. The synthesized fluoroglycosides exhibited broad synthetic utility in O- and C-glycosylation. Notably, time-resolved NMR analysis revealed direct evidence for a glycosyl phosphate-mediated pathway for the deoxyfluorination of hemiacetals.
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